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2000年岳敏君

□□我一直生活在一种无法言说的状态里，我赋予自己喜笑怒骂，左右事物的特权，并看透了世上一切事物。我能够在他们身上找到大笑的因素。在笑容的后面，有时隐藏着病情，是一种不由自主的，不能自控的强迫性笑脸。

□□人在笑的时候是不思想的，从某种意义讲，我画的是幸福的、被人驱使的人们。

1999年岳敏君

□□我们生活在一个偶像的世界里，他们无处不在。雷锋、刘胡兰、杰克逊、梦露、斯大林、毕加索……等等。他们屹立在你心中，左右你的生活。我发现他们成为一个偶像都有一个共同点，就是利用自己的形象到处传播。我只偶用了一下他们的方式，不断重复把自己制造成偶像。当然我的方式比较单纯。我最渴望的就是使自己成为偶像。人一旦成为偶像，他便能进入别人的血液，左右别人的思想意识。坦白地说，偶像在当今的社会中已经变得很无趣了，许多人有这样的感觉，脑子里闪过伟大人物时，就想要作呕，生活被偶像搞的没滋没味、荒诞不经的程度。你说我该不该反讥偶像。用捧腹大笑面对偶像，我的动机只是用偶像亵渎偶像，使这个社会变得更有趣。

We are in a world full of idols. We see them everywhere. Liu Hulan, Lei Feng, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Picasso, Stalin and so on and so forth. They stand erect in your heart and your life is under their influence and control. I discovered what each of these people as an idol share in common, spreading his or her own image every where. Just occasionally I simplify and use this method in my art, repeatedly idolizing myself. I long to be an idol, because once a person becomes an idol, he or she can enter into the blood veins of others and control their ideology.

Frankly speaking, nowadays the phenomenon of idols has become extremely tiresome. People have such strong feelings for their idols that as soon as an image of great person flashes through their minds thy feel nauseous. Life has become tasteless and absurd because of the idols. Do you not think on should counter and ridicule idols with a hearty laugh?

I want simply to confront idols with idol, to allow society to become a little more interesting!

1998年岳敏君

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□□现实离我们越来越远，报纸、杂志等等传播媒介反复出现的文章和图片是最高的现实。我想寻找一种新的现实，我个人的绝对的现实。

□□你在世界的任何一角落都能看到脸，特别是我们自己生产的文化，电视、杂志、电影、报纸、产品广告等等，尽是人的脸，除了脸还是脸，在我的脑子里全是脸，有的时候我在众多的脸中，分离不出自己的脸，我画不出千姿百态的脸，脸在我的脑子里变成了一个脸。

□□我希望我的这个大笑形象，应该无所不在，在人类所能有的传播媒体中，让人们的日常生活离不开她，要是人们满脑子都是大笑，世界肯定会变得很有意思。 我觉得笑是比较不那么令人厌恶。

□□我画的人是哈哈大笑，还是放声大笑，是嘲笑，还是狂笑，是面对死亡的笑，还是面对社会的笑。似乎每一种成份都有。

□□笑就是拒绝思考，就是头脑对某些事物感到无从思考，或者难于思考，需要摆脱它。

□□这是一个让人咧嘴笑的时代。

□□艺术家是这样一种人，他们总是诱导简单幼稚的人和被人驱使的人，自始至终过一种错误生活。


《艺术断想》岳敏君 94年1月
《竹帘后的脸-岳敏君 杨少斌画展》少励画廊 香港 1994

Reality is getting further and further away from us. Newspaper, magazines and television, the repetitions news which appears in every corner of our homes, offices, schools seem to be the absolute reality. I'm now looking for a new reality, an absolute reality that only belongs to me.
Reality slips us by more and more. Newspapers, magazines, television, the continuous news from here, there and everywhere, at home, in the office, at school, seems to be the absolute reality. I am searching for a new reality, an absolute reality that only belongs to me. (catalogue of the exhibition "'Quotation Marks': Chinese Contemporary Paintings", Singapore Art Museum; "China!", Bonn Art Museum, Germany, 1997)

In every corner of this world, you see faces, especially the ones which are created by our culture-television, magazines, movies, newspapers, commercials. Faces are seen everywhere: there are faces upon faces. I cannot depict all of these different faces simply because my mind is only set for one face.

I hope my laughing character will be seen everywhere, whether through mass-communications or the interaction of our daily lives. If everybody would laugh from their hearts, then the world would be nicer for us.
I hope that my laughing figures will be seen everywhere…the world would then be much more pleasant if everybody roared with laughter! (catalogue of the exhibition "'Quotation Marks': Chinese Contemporary Paintings", Singapore Art Museum; "China!", Bonn Art Museum, Germany, 1997)

I have always found laughter irresistible-well, at least I don't dislike it.

I paint people laughing, whether it is a big laugh, a restrained laugh, a crazy-laugh, a near-death laugh or simply laughter about our society: laughter can be about anything.

Laughter is a moment when our mind refuses to reason. When we are puzzled by certain things, our mind simply doesn't want to struggle, or perhaps we don't know how to think, therefore we just want to forget it.

The 90's is the time when everyone should laugh.

Artists are the kind of people who always like to reveal to the simple, innocent and humble souls the never-ending illusion of our lives.
"Some Thoughts About Art", Yue Minjun, Jan,'94
catalog of the exhibition "Faces Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Works of Yue Min Jun and Yang Shao Bin", Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1994

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写于《身体·中国》，中法文化年系列展览之一，马赛现代艺术博物馆，法国，2004，展会画册

□□中国汉字是象形文字，每一个文字都像一个人的动作。我试图要表现每一个文字的精神和文化状态，使这些字更有人性的感觉。中国书法曾经要表现出书者，观者和文字这三者之间的精神互动。我发觉人体也有一种和文字之间的关系。这样，人体在绘画中更加具有文化的内涵。它表现的不仅仅是一个人的动作，而是一个具有文化符号特征的动作。

write for catalogue of the exhibition "China, the Body Everywhere?", the Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseille, France, 2004

Chinese characters are ideographs, each of which looks like someone's action. I am trying to represent the spiritual and cultural state of every single character so that there can be more feelings of humanity inside them. Chinese calligraphy used to represent the mental interaction between the writer, the audience and the character. And I found out that human body also has a kind of relationship with characters then, it has even more connotation of culture in brushworks, which represent not only an action of some individual, but also an action with the characteristic of cultural symbol.

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写于《岳敏君：红色的海洋》，CCARTUK画廊，伦敦，英国，2000，展会画册

Write for catalogue of the exhibition "Yue Minjun, Red Ocean", Chinese Contemporary Art UK, London, UK, 2000

How do you know that I make fun of something?
How does it come that I have no doubt that you laugh at something! Do you think you laugh from the bottom of your heart?
What has the reason of my laughter to do with you? I am laughing wildly.
I've never seen such a wild laugh, you only laugh for the sake of laughter, a kind of miserable laughter, let me feel you are very ridiculous.
You also know it is funny, you think I am funny, so do you think this world is also funny?
I think this world is not at all funny, everywhere it is filled with happiness.
Happiness is also a kind of laughter, to laugh for the sake of laughing, laughter is not only one kind of laughter, but countless sorts of laughter.
Every kind of laughter is a laughter.
After you've laughed, you still want to go on laughing, to laugh is also a waste, laughter is just laughter, to laugh or not to laugh depends on you.
You are not willing to laugh, so you are too ridiculous.
Do you think you are addicted to laughter, whatever you see you laugh, like this you are silly laughing, it is mindless laughter. Laughter is mindless, while you're laughing you do not think, laughter is superficial, is simple.
To laugh can make you feel young, to laugh can relieve you from worries.
I love to laugh, to laugh is better than to cry. Laughter is beauty, laughter is art, laughter is happiness, laughter is the greatest.
Can laughter be everything?
Of course, laughter is food, laughter is money, laughter is a beautiful woman, laughter is the blue sky, laughter is power. Laughter is cloth, laughter is a sharp knife, laughter is cheating, laughter is flowers and grass, laughter is science, laughter is drugs. Laughter is TV, laughter is the source of everything.
Everything is nonsense, you are a lunatic. Ha, ha, ha.
After you have laughed and become normal again, maybe there is still a trace of laughter left around the corners of your mouth, don't forget, laughter let your body relax, it is a facial massage, it speeds up your blood circulation. I laugh, you laugh, he also laughs, like this my laughter has reached its goal.
A smiling life is like this.

Yue Minjun, Beijing, 2000